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Photo Gallery: CBC Music Festival at RBC Echo Beach featuring Scott Helman, Walk Off The Earth, Serena Ryder
Conan O’Brien On The End Of Television As We Know It
Over the past decade, Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton heard a lot of people in Silicon Valley talk about the end of the cable business. They’ve talked about so-called cord-cutters, so called never-cords, and the rise of over-the-top streaming options like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. For the most part, the data backs them up. During the last quarter alone, in fact, half-a-million TV subscribers sliced the cord. It’s far more rare, however, to hear people in the television industry talk about the increasing irrelevance of cable television. Yet that’s exactly what Conan O’Brien, the host of TBS’s Conan, told Nick during their conversation on this week’s Inside the Hive podcast. “Five or 10 years from now—because TV is changing so rapidly—I might not have a late-night TV show,” O’Brien said in a conference room in his office. He then added: “But I might have something that you can get on the Internet. At a certain point, I don’t care how people experience me. It’s getting to the point where it doesn’t matter to me; I just want people to see the stuff.”
What A Beatboxer’s Larynx Looks Like
Renowned beatboxer Tom Thum visited ENT doctor and Laryngeal surgeon Dr Matthew Broadhurst to find out how his larynx functioned when performing compared to how it functions normally with speech, and whether or not there were any abnormalities in his laryngeal anatomy. I also had very little idea of what the inside of our throats and all the noise producing mechanisms actually looked like. The results were fascinating yet horrifyingly graphic and will probably make a few people get a little sick. Worth a watch! Heh.
Evanescence’s Amy Lee Performs Using a Hello Kitty Keyboard
Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee performs a candlelit version of Death Cab for Cutie’s I Will Follow You Into the Dark on a Hello Kitty keyboard
Hope Sandoval on Writer’s Block
Some people talk about songwriting like it’s a business. Others feel it’s much more muse-driven and more spontaneous. Isn’t writer’s block just the most archaic idea?
Hope Sandoval: I didn’t even know what that was until the late ‘90s. Like, what the hell is that? People aren’t able to do something? That’s crazy. What does that mean, “writer’s block?” What the hell does that mean? You can’t write or play music or paint? That’s just crazy. It’s like a posh term. You’ve gotta be super rich to fucking have writer’s block, you know what I mean?
Because it’s not your full-time job and it’s just a hobby on the side, so you can take time to muse about writer’s block.
Sandoval: [Mocking] “I’ve got writer’s block, guys. I can’t work!” Honestly, writer’s block is baby crap. Get it together, people. Stop thinking about it and just do it. That’s just overthinking it. It’s not so precious; it’s just a song. It’s just art and art is nothing. Art is not precious, anybody can do it. A five-year-old can do it. It’s not a big deal.
How mastering the Buchla 200 synth changed Suzanne Ciani, and the music industry
A true synthesizer pioneer, Suzanne Ciani’s love of electronic music began in 1968 during a field trip to MIT, but it was her decade-long adventure mastering the Buchla 200 that would define her career. She worked in commercials and in the late 80’s and 90’s redefined herself again as a five-time Grammy-nominated new age artist. In her 2016 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, she talked about her history as well as her recent collaborative effort with fellow Buchla player Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.
Why social media might be bad for musicians’ psychological health
The always-on culture of social media and its increasing demands for musicians’ time may be bad for their psychological health, according to Cooking Vinyl owner Martin Goldschmidt.
“One of the big changes that has happened is that artists have to be incredibly engaged in social media – and this has been a massive [shift] for artists over the last 10 years,” he said, speaking on a The Future of the Music Industry panel at the BIME conference in Bilbao.
“They have to be on several social media platforms and I am just wondering if the next stage is if they are going to have to visually record part of the recording process. Not only will you be able to stream the new release, but you can also see it in VR.”
Goldschmidt was backed up by Gerhard Behles, CEO of Ableton, who was speaking on the same panel.
“An artist 30 years ago was very proficient in one facility or two; they might have been a fantastic writer and play an instrument very well,” said Behles. “Most of the people we deal with now have to be proficient at writing, performing, recording [and so on]. That is just going to expand. Now they have to be really good with their social channels. I wonder what kind of personality can survive that.”
Goldschmidt added: “In the 1980s, fan engagement was shagging groupies and scoring drugs from the front row of a gig. Now it’s horrendous what an artist has to do. The pressure that is put on an artist when they are 24/7 exposed to social media and the internet; that is massive psychologically and it causes massive psychological problems, actually. And it is going to get worse because of VR and the way that things are going.”
Sir Richard Branson on building a knock-out brand
‘How to build a knock out brand’ is part of a growing number of masterclasses run by Virgin StartUp to give entrepreneurs the practical skills they need to launch and grow awesome businesses. Here’s what happened when the king of branding, Sir Richard Branson stopped by.
The Bad Plus covers insanely complex electronica song from Aphex Twin
Electronica pioneer Aphex Twin is known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in styles such as IDM and acid techno, and you wold think he’d be impossible to cover. Enter The Bad Plus, the jazz trio from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King.
